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Hey so maybe we are not very good at umm explaining what our product does, I guess. Our vision behind emulating the in-office experience revolves around the ide
by mahad759 6y ago
Hey so maybe we are not very good at umm explaining what our product does, I guess. Our vision behind emulating the in-office experience revolves around the idea that when you're working in an office, you can "see" who's in and who's not. Plus for example your colleague got off his chair and went out for of the room you'd notice that for sure (if you're friends you may even know the reason behind it as well). After covid-19 lockdowns, people started to work remote. Now that feeling of knowing what your colleagues are unto isn't anymore. If pre-lockdown you had to go and ask a colleague some help, you'd know if he's available or not but when you go remote you're not sure if he is available at that instant or not.
Plus, when a lot of teams faced a sudden transition to remote, they were only touch with the people who they were dependent on. As in your team lead, or one or two team mates. So, that feeling of being connected to other coworkers starts to fade away.
Tbh, this is the first time I have heard so many people `pissed` (can't think of a right word) at remoty. I literally have users emailing me who JUST used our product for 8 days saying that their team has already started to feel closer. I can share that screenshot as well. We never designed this workflow for paranoid managers, else it'd have some crazy features like selfie & geo-located attendance etc.
- mahad759 6y agoAnd I get what you're saying about standups. But again, we designed it in a way that it allows people working in different timezones take control of their schedules.
- aronpye 6y agoYou can do that with a plain old calendar without the tracking
- mahad759 6y agoSo you're saying that if I have to go offline for a while during my work time I should put in my calendar?
- toomuchtodo 6y agoAbsolutely. See https://reclaim.ai/daily-habits/ https://reclaim.ai/daily-habits/ for an example of how this is executed elegantly.
- mahad759 6y agoreclaim ai looks like a really great tool! I just have skimmed through the landing page, but from what I understand is you still have to switch context even after using a slack integration. Teams are split in sooo many tools these days, that switching context is sometimes that big of a overhead that people may choose to avoid it. Plus most importantly, never claimed that using remoty is the ONLY way you can communicate your schedule on the fly.
- toomuchtodo 6y agoPoints are taken. I think you have to nail down who your audience is: colleagues or managers. How you approach the problem is going to be different for each audience, based on the expectations and workflows of those audiences. Best of luck.
- mahad759 6y agoThank you so much for this amazing feedback! Will do!
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